Questions tagged [wireframe]
Questions about viewing or rendering an object in wireframe. Wireframe is displayed by drawing only the object's edges. A wireframe is usually used to view the topology of an object.
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How can I render an edge only mesh as solid lines?
I have a schematic of a raspberry pi that is completely flat, no solid faces, just connected vertices.
Is it possible to render these lines somehow, so that it looks like a 2D drawing?
Maybe with ...
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Rendering with wireframe
I'm making figures to illustrate some details about how meshes work. I'd like to render my scene normally, but overlay all of my meshes in wire mode.
The only solution I've found which works is ...
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How to render as only wireframe in Cycles?
I need to know how to render a object on Blender Cycles but only as a wireframe, for example, like this:
Also, it is possible to vary between the smooth wireframe object and the polygonal wireframe ...
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Create a rounded wireframe?
Is it possible to easily create a rounded wireframe mesh in blender?
The Skin modifier works well, but it's too heavy for even medium meshes; it takes several minuets with the default Suzanne.
You ...
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Can cycles Wireframe Input be coerced into displaying Tris, Quads and Ngons
edit 2 years later: Here is an alternative answer that meets the desired end-result using FreeStyle.
Is there a way to make the wireframe input show the geometry as BMesh polygons instead of the raw ...
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How to render a pixelated, occluded wireframe with freestyle?
I'd like to combine these features:
The pixelated look of a wire material with anti-aliasing disabled.
Proper occlusion of hidden lines.
A wireframe material produces the first feature, freestyle ...
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How to display all mesh wire in flats faces?
I want to display all wire in a mesh, but if the edges are in a flat face that are not shown... Here's a little example:
Do you know how to do that?
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Wireframes with Square Cross-Sections?
I am trying to generate thick wireframe meshes that do not appear so pointy. The modifier generates faces at acute angles (see cross sections below) where I am trying to get square cross-sections. ...
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How to show wireframe on shaded object in 3D View?
Is it possible to show wireframe on shaded objects in the 3D View?
I'm looking for something like below:
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Can the 3D viewport be set to draw smooth (anti-aliased) wireframe?
When I create mesh etc the wireframe looks so jagged. Coming from other applications I've used, most of them seem to have smooth wireframe (Maya to name one).
Are smooth wireframes possible in ...
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Render a wireframe with equal thickness in Cycles?
Is there a way to make a render with freestyle in cycles and use it as a wireframe?
No matter what technique I use, blender always gives me a stretched wireframe. And by that I mean the wireframe is ...
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How can I create a 3D spacetime grid animation?
I want to make this kind of animation GIF.
It has to work in Eevee with multiple objects. Unfortunately I couldn't do it via wireframes modifier and proportional editing. Do you have any suggestions?
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How to keep one object on certain view mode?
I'm trying to keep my reference image that I important as a plane in Material mode while I can still adjust the object I'm modeling by switching between Wireframe and Solid (by using Z). Every time I ...
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How to render an object as a transparent wireframe?
I'm a psychology student (and 3D design noob) who's been tasked with designing items for a test of spatial ability like this example...
I've been playing around with Blender, and I've gotten this ...
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Render wireframes with hidden wires?
I need to render my models in wireframe (no solid). I first turned to the Wireframe modifier, it works great. Only I can see through to the wires at the back of the model. I need to render only the ...
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How to see the mesh with subdivisions in wireframe mode in blender 2.83?
Hi I can't see how to see the mesh with all subdivisions in blender 2.83. Does anyone know how it can be activated? in past versions I think it was by default
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Wireframe modifier resolution
Basically I am asking what was already asked a year ago in this thread:
Create a rounded wireframe?
The question is basically unresolved an I thought that since a year ago someone might have an ...
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How to disable wireframe for a second 3D view when in edit mode?
When I enter Edit mode, all 3d views show me wireframe. I want my extra 3D view to show me no wireframe when I enter Edit mode. It is possible in 3ds max by reference copy.
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What tool can generate this kind of illustrations?
I am writing my thesis about 3D modelling, and I found these illustrations in another thesis. I would like to make something similar.
I can already draw the "egg" shapes in Blender, but this ...
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Is it possible to recreate this in blender geometry nodes and how if yes?
I want to recreate this in blender geometry nodes. I suppose it is possible but it is more math than i hoped it is.
Can someone help please?
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"Curve From Mesh/Text" not working on wireframe of cube
I was following this link on solidifying edges. When I went to convert the mesh to a curve, nothing happened. Here's what I starting with a new file:
Select cube
Tab to edit mode
Ctrl + F > Wireframe
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How to get a wireframe to have a "flat" edge instead of a "sharp" one?
The title is confusing.
I have a wireframe I made
This wireframe has "sharp" edges
This is what I mean by "flat" edges. How do I achieve this?
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What are the blue lines in a wireframe
so, I've been working on a Blender file for a while, and I forgot what I did to make the wires turn dark blue, like so:
Anyone knows what this means?
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Problem with the mobius wireframe
Hi guys I created a mobius strip and applied a wireframe modifier to it. It seemed like that it became a complicated wireframe because I used the triangular prism to array. However, I just want to ...
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wireframe render over an object with the subdivision surface wireframe?
Is there a way to render an object with a subdivision surface modifier with a wireframe which is the original geometry as well as the wires that make the subdivision surface?
Example:
This wireframe ...
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Hide wireframe in edit mode
I am editing a very dense mesh. It looks great when viewed as solid faces, but it's just a black blob when viewed as wireframe because there are so many vertices.
When I switch to edit mode to select ...
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How to get solid render with wireframes and no shading
I got this by using the advice here...
How to display the edges of a mesh while in Object mode?
Basically, use object mode and check "wire" and "display edges". Then I adjust materials until I can ...
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Wireframe only when rendered
When I render my model I get this:
But I want it to look like a rendered version of this:
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Unable to select multiple objects
So I’m not sure what is going on, but I am unable to select more than one object. The first object is select is orange and then any following that is blue. I am in object mode. I tried selecting ...
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3D Voronoi with Internal Geometry?
I want to 3D print a model of a vertebra for my brother but I wanted to spice it up and print it in a voronoi style. I'm aware that this can be done by adding wiremesh and sub surf modifiers.
The ...
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How can I make an object render with a wireframe in the game engine?
I want it to look like the top image when I press P, so it has those lines around each face.
Like this:
Not like this:
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Hide occluded vertices
Background
Using Blender 4.1 and a wireframe modifier to project a mountain mesh as a blueprint. Subterranean structures must remain visible. I'd like to remove parts of the mountain that aren't ...
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Why does the wire-frame material fades across the object?
Why does the wire-frame material fades across the object?
Here is what I did - I created a new material and I selected on "Wire" and I made it shadeless. Then, I created a new material and assigned ...
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Displaying the wireframe of a beveled Bezier curve [duplicate]
I'm following a tutorial in which a Bezier curve is supposed to represent a vine. The vine is a collection of control points with their bevel depth and bevel resolution set appropriately:
However, ...
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Blender 2.8 Wireframe Mode: show only visible Vertices
As you see the back vertices are visible. I want them to be hidden as you would expect.
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"wire_mat_gui" add-on, how to render wireframe with visible edges only?
I'm trying to render a wireframe combined with solid using this addon, but for some reason it shows some edges that should be hidden. I made some research but couldn't find anything as I don't know ...
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Edges of the model are visible in Object Mode [duplicate]
I'm not in Edit Mode, but the Edges of the model are visible. How can I hide them in Object Mode?
In Blender, I'm not in Edit Mode, but the edges of the model are visible.
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have i toggled wireframe? [duplicate]
Hi I seem to have toggled wireframe and I can't get out of it or is this wireframe at all? I hit Z and nothing changes
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Reduce text width to 0 (internal wire)
I'm unable to find even a starting point to this problem, so any guidance of any sort would be awesome. First a short paragraph on fonts.
Fonts
From what I know, fonts in general are described as (...
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Why do I have so many vertices hidden under one point?
I am trying to create this eye, and noticed that whenever I try to move the vertex inwards, it has like 4 more vertices underneath.
You can see I tried to use the Grab tool and it took 4 tries just to ...
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How can i feed the output of the Dynamic Paint into the input of the Wireframe Node?
How can i feed the output of the Dynamic Paint into the input of the Wireframe Node (or any other Node)? So that the red areas show a bigger wireframe effect than the the blue areas.
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Is it possible to import the outline or profile of something from a picture to use as a line in a wireframe?
I have some engineering schematics for an aircraft I want to make a 3d model of. These schematics includes cross-sections of the air foil at different parts of the aircraft, basically what you would ...
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Making a geodesic polyhedron with spheres on the vertices
Firstly, I'm relatively new to Blender, so apologies if this is an obvious question.
Using the Ico Sphere, I've made a Geodesic Polyhedron. I've also wireframed this and made spheres appear on the ...
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How to toggle grid lines that are displayed in wireframe mode?
I'm following a Blender Guru tutorial on how to make a coffee cup. When looking at the cup in wireframe with xray & edit mode on, his screen has no extra gridlines between the vertices/face. ...
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Is there a way to render a wireframe independent of its topology?
Lets say I have an object and I want to render it in squarish wireframe in orthographic view. Here is what I mean -
I am not looking for a specific topology in the 3d view, but what ever the ...
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Can't turn off x-ray mode
for some reason I can't get out of the x-ray or wireframe mode. I know to find the overlays button, but whatever I do, I can't get to see my object in solid mode.
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Freestyle Wireframe SVG Export Workaround?
Little disclaimer: I don't have much experience with Blender or 3D modelling at all, just downloaded the program last week.
My goal is to create polyhedra, then render out the wireframe as a SVG.
I ...
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Wireframe horizontal vertices - retro video game effect
How am I able to recreate this effect? I have used the wireframe modifier to utilise the crossing mesh on existing models but would love to be able to only have a horizontal vertices that hide the ...
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See background image through solid shading in edit mode
I am modeling a person's head and face using front and side reference images. I have set the reference images as Background Images for the "Front Ortho" and "Right Ortho" views, respectively. For the ...
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Black wires covering object
Im quite bloody inexperienced in this software, so you might as well call me a noob, but here is my problem:
I was modelling a soda can, then I decided to make a stand for it and accidentally pressed ...
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